Not a real face
Description:I'll let you guess what type of creature Helicocranchia pfefferi is from this picture:
Done looking? This is an unusual species of squid called a banded piglet squid. It looks a bit like an animal with a cartoon face, but that is not a face at all. Its tentacles look like hair while colour patterns form what looks like eyes and a mouth an a fin like flap forms what looks like a nose. Like many deep sea creatures it can produce light. The young quite a bit different to the adults.
Distribution:
The piglet squid can be found in trapical waters all over the world and in the temperate North Atlantic. They lusually live between 100 and 200 m below the surface getting deeper as they get older.
The piglet squid can be found in trapical waters all over the world and in the temperate North Atlantic. They lusually live between 100 and 200 m below the surface getting deeper as they get older.
Classification:
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Cephalopoda
Order:Teuthida
Family:Cranchiidae
Genus:Helicocranchia
Species:Helicocranchia pfefferi
Image Links:
http://www.haberler.com/gulen-yuzlu-domuz-murekkepbaligi-haberi/
https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/tag/pelagic/
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Cephalopoda
Order:Teuthida
Family:Cranchiidae
Genus:Helicocranchia
Species:Helicocranchia pfefferi
Image Links:
http://www.haberler.com/gulen-yuzlu-domuz-murekkepbaligi-haberi/
https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/tag/pelagic/
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